San Martin de Los Andes, Argentina
We stopped at the Bike Hostel here, owned by Maxi, an enthusiastic bike fanatic. He had Julie’s pedal fixed by his mechanic, an American named Goat. Two weeks ago Goat completed cycling from Alaska to Ushuaia, barefoot! He is 1/3 of Riding the Spine, who we’d heard about from the Cycling Nomads; then read about in Lucho’s logbook at the Casa de Ciclistas in Trujillo, Peru. His bike is a Surly longbike (made in Minnesota) with tires as wide as a motorcycle’s. They cycled off-road (80% unpaved) along the continental divide of the Americas, hence they were “riding the spine”.
Goat & his Surly longbike.
Drier climes here in the "rain shadow" of the Andes.
